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So far I haven't noticed any major issues with the latest software versions except the well noted issue with the iOS app where you have to delete it and re-install it for the new version to work. I just installed the latest PC update last night and haven't messed with it much yet but I didn't notice any immediate issues.

I am still hoping for a setting somewhere, either in one of the portable or computer apps that would allow us to set up the Nomad to automatically transcode everything we record. I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 320 GB USB 2.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive hooked up to my Nomad so I have plenty of storage space to keep it all. Right now I have done a workaround by setting up all my series links to automatically transcode and transfer to my PC, but I'd rather not have to do that. It puts unnecessary wear and tear and is a waste of space on my PC hard drive since I never use the Nomad app on it to do anything else. If I want to watch a recording on the PC I just use the DirecTV2PC app so I can see the recordings in HiDef. I really only use the Nomad for my portable devices (the iPhones and iPads).

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
-by Jack Handy

When I updated to V2.0 in my iPad, it first complained about an invalid password a few times. Next it said there was a problem with my activation and gave me the option to reactivate. When I tried that, it said something about not meeting system requirements or something to that effect. This left me no choice but to uninstall and reinstall the app. That of course caused a loss of shows on the iPad.

Still not happy that there is no native iPad screen resolution support for the UI.

I bought NOMAD, but haven't used it very much due to:
1)slowness and unreliability of recordings
2)lack of promised native iPad app
Hoping Directv makes this a more useful product in the near future...

I bought NOMAD, but haven't used it very much due to:1)slowness and unreliability of recordings2)lack of promised native iPad appHoping Directv makes this a more useful product in the near future...

Have you tried the latest update? It works much quicker for most functions including initial startup. The only thing that didn't really change is transcode time, and I don't know if that will ever change much. Transfer time once transcoded was improved significantly though.

I still don't get how so many people are so upset about not having a native iPad app. Have you even tried the iPhone app on the iPad. It works really well, the GUI doesn't have the greatest picture quality when using it, but the programs themselves look very good in my opinion. Sure they're not HD and don't take advantage of my new iPad's great screen resolution, but they look just fine to me. I don't know if we will ever get HD resolution transfers, I think the studios want us to have to buy/rent HD versions if we want them. Even the digital copies included with Blu-Rays are still standard def.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
-by Jack Handy

I still don't get how so many people are so upset about not having a native iPad app. Have you even tried the iPhone app on the iPad. It works really well, the GUI doesn't have the greatest picture quality when using it, but the programs themselves look very good in my opinion.

The GUI is my issue. My eyesight is not that great, and that is one of the reasons I have an iPad and not a Touch. Blowing things up to fill the screen and be readable looks like crap. As I stated earlier, it boggles my mind that they have not updated the UI yet. We aren't talking about a re-write of the whole app, just update the graphics.

I personally feel that the Nomad is not selling like they thought and we will never see a native iPad app (or android), and this will end up like Media Share, TV apps and the dodo. I say this because there have been practically no posts in this 'new' thread, which tells me either people are not buying them any more, or have just given up on it.

I guess that's where we differ. I don't really care if the gui isn't all that pretty, it could be all text in big blocky letters for all I care as long as I can easily find my shows, and the shows themselves look good. That is the case with using the app in my opinion.

I think that eventually Nomad functionality will be built into the exiting DirecTV for iPad app. It's just taking a while since that app has so many other functions they are trying to get working/ironed out first, and they know that the iPhone Nomad app works fine for now.

As far as it not being popular because not many people are posting in this thread I don't know that is a fair judgement either. There are around 10 threads on the Nomad in this forum right on the first page that people are posting in, just because they aren't all in here doesn't mean much. Not to mention that I highly doubt every Nomad owner is a member of this site, or bothers to post in these threads all the time.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
-by Jack Handy

I think it's great for the traveler. And we love it as casual travelers. From the deck to the Carribean.

Agree Dennis.

I've used it alot on planes, in hotels, on long car trips, on a cruise, and other mobile locations without any need of Internet connectivity. The freedom to take recordings anywhere and view them is indeed a nice thing.

Yep, same here. I don't know why they just don't tell you that you have to delete and reinstall (and that your content will go poof). None of the updates have worked without a reinstall yet.

Un-installing and losing content isn't a terribly big deal for me. Most of the content I have on Nomad / iPad is movies, documentaries, concerts instead of weekly series / sitcoms that might have been deleted from my DVRs and lost.

But the app does need to upgrade without losing content.

Spending to stimulate the economy as fast as the credit cards will allow!

Un-installing and losing content isn't a terribly big deal for me. Most of the content I have on Nomad / iPad is movies, documentaries, concerts instead of weekly series / sitcoms that might have been deleted from my DVRs and lost.

But the app does need to upgrade without losing content.

Good point.

In addition, if one loses the mobile device content, the transcode is still on nomad itself...and the 2nd step download process (even doing it again) goes quite fast.

Un-installing and losing content isn't a terribly big deal for me. Most of the content I have on Nomad / iPad is movies, documentaries, concerts instead of weekly series / sitcoms that might have been deleted from my DVRs and lost.

But the app does need to upgrade without losing content.

Agree on both points, one of which I made earlier. I guess many of us have "lost content" several dozen times, no biggie at all, but for a release version to the general public, I'd expect a large hue and cry, phone lines lit up across DIRECTV land. Although, on re-thinking a moment, perhaps the existing core of nomad owners are early adaptors, tech savvy and able to weather a few inconveniences....